ecargo10 Apr 2006

Actually, I took it to mean the opposite--the article points out (rightly, I think) that Occam's Razor is a good argument *against* the existence of God because, when boiled down to the essentials, God is a outlier, not an essential. God "introduces a truly new, unrelated element to the explanatory system. Occam's Razor can shave away the God concept without affecting any of the basic concepts of science. If we try to cut away evolution theory, we have to shave away an enormous amount of knowledge about the world, as evolution theory is just a name for the patterns basic processes produce."

Occam's Razor is just a tool, a way of thinking, though. It doesn't necessarily prove or disprove anything. It does help to provide clarity in thinking when dealing with complex systems and theories though.

So much for working today. Yikes.